Research Staff
Dr. Vishwajeet Pattanaik
Designation: Specialist Scientist
Qualification:Ph.D. (Computer Science), Tallinn University of Technology
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved: Modelling driving behaviour of Indian drivers using heavy-vehicle simulator, Investigating the effect of real-time alerts on drivers’ response and their driving behaviour, Simultaneous optimization towards smooth traffic flow in urban environments, Video analytics using unmanned aerial vehicles for miscellaneous object detection applications, Detection and characterization of speed bumps/potholes using smartphones, A self-supervised, visual-analytical approach for automatic detection of cyclonic events in satellite observations.
Research Interest: Machine Learning, Data Science, Image Processing, Ubiquitous Computing, Collective Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction
Dr. Anil NP Koushik
Designation: Specialist Scientist
Qualification: Ph.D.
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved: City-Scale Travel Demand Model Development.
Research Interest: Travel demand modelling, Activity-based modelling, Neural Networks, Machine learning.
Dr. Aravinda Reddy PN
Designation:Research Associate-1
Qualification: Ph.D. (Computer Science), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP)
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved: Modelling driving behaviour of Indian drivers using heavy-vehicle simulator, A self-supervised, visual-analytical approach for automatic detection of cyclonic events in satellite observations.
Research Interest: Machine Learning, Image Processing, Speech processing, Computer Vision, Biometrics.
Dr. Ashutosh Kumar
Designation: Research Associate
Qualification:PhD (Civil engineering), Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved: Bicycle simulator
Research Interest: Traffic Safety, Traffic Flow Theory, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Driver Behaviour, Statistical Modeling, Bayesian Data Analysis
Dr. Chetan Doddamani
Designation:Postdoctoral Research Associate III
Qualification: Ph.D, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved:City-Scale Travel Demand Model Development.
Research Interest: Activity Travel Behavior, Built environment, Spatial Analysis, Choice/ Demand Modelling.
Dr. Madhuri Kashyap N R
Designation:Research Associate I
Qualification:Ph.D. (Transportation Engineering), IIT Tirupati
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved: Road Safety Education, Evaluation of Road Rules and Best Practices.
Research Interest: Traffic flow modeling and simulation, Transportation data analytics, Traffic safety and management, Driving behavior modeling, Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Dr. Shivachethan V
Designation:Research Associate I
Qualification:Ph.D. (Transportation Engineering), IIT Tirupati
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved:Optimization of KSRTC’s staff structure for improved efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and service quality.
Research Interest: Traffic Engineering and Road Safety, Traffic Flow Modeling and Simulation, Transportation Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.
Mr. Debashis Ray Sarkar
Designation:Research Associate I
Qualification:Ph.D. (Transportation Engineering), IIT Delhi
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved:Modelling driving behaviour of Indian drivers using heavy-vehicle simulator.
Research Interest: Traffic Safety, Driving Behaviour, Driving Simulator, Unsupervised Learning.
Mr. Dileepan K
Designation: Project Scientist - I
Qualification: Masters of Transportation Engineering and Management, NIT Trichy
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved: Integrated Corridor Management Dhaka North for World Bank, Road Safety Audits, Blackspot Rectifications, In Plant Traffic Layout & planning studies , Journey Risk Management , Crash Investigation ( Road Perspective) and Product Development.
Research Interest: ITS based technologies & Road Safety, Transportation Planning.
Mr. Sukanto Mette
Designation:Project Scientist
Qualification: M.Tech in Transportation System Engineering, IISc
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved:City Scale Travel Demand Model Tool Development.
Research Interest: Routing Algorithms, Travel Demand Modelling, ITS, Applications of computer vision in traffic.
Mr. Alok Kumar Komal
Designation: Project Associate-II
Qualification: M.Tech (Research), Theoretical Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Automation, IISc
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved: Combinatorial Optimization with Machine Learning — focusing on the Vehicle Routing Problem, its special cases, and variants.
Research Interest: Combinatorial Optimization, Computational Geometry, Graph Theory, Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Online Learning, LLMs, Distributed Systems.
Mr. Charan Teja Kadimi
Designation:Senior Project Associate
Qualification:: B. Tech in Electronics and Communication.
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved:ML Based Automotive Intrusion Detection and Prevention System, Signal Boundary Extraction.
Research Interest: Automotive Domain, Machine Learning , Deep Learning, LLM's.
Mr. Vaishak R
Designation: Project Associate
Qualification: M.Tech in Transportation Engineering and Management, Reva University
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved:Development of city-scale activity based models for Bengaluru
Research Interest: Development of multimodal transportation model for an urban city, travel behaviour survey, creation and estimation of geometric design of highway using OPENROADS and CIVIL 3D software, network augmentation using Q-GIS software.
Ms. Anushtha Tamrakar
Designation:Project Associate - I
Qualification: B.Tech in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, International Institute of Information Technology, Naya Raipur [C.G.]
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved: Development of an Unsupervised Learning-based Model for Cyber-attack Detection in Power Grid.
Research Interest: Machine Learning, Data Science, Deep Learning, Computer Vision.
Ms. Bhumika S
Designation:Project Associate
Qualification: M.Tech in Transportation Engineering and Management
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved: City-Scale Travel Demand Model Development.
Research Interest: Travel demand modelling, Geometric design of highways, Traffic Engineering and Road Safety
Mr. Dabbu Mothsera
Designation:Project Associate -I
Qualification:B.Tech CSE
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved:Public Transportation Network.
Research Interest: Web Development, AI/ML, Simulation, AR/VR
Mr. Sagar S Jirli
Designation: Project Associate
Qualification:M.Tech in Transportation Engineering and Management, B.M.S College of Engineering.
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved:City-Scale Travel Demand Model Development.
Research Interest: Travel demand modelling, Transportation Planning,Traffic Engineering & Road safety, ITS.
Mr. Aritra Karmakar
Designation: Full Stack Developer
Qualification: B.E (ISE), VTU
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved: City-Scale Travel Demand Model Development.
Research Interest: Software Solutions, Full Stack Development, Web Development, Emerging trends in JavaScript, Web3, Web Performance, Data Modelling.
Mr. Parikshit Singh Rathore
Designation: Junior Research Fellow
Qualification: B.Tech CSE
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved: Deep Learning-based Self-Supervised Approaches for Cluster Analysis.
Research Interest: Computer Vision, AI for Good.
Ms. Anshu Gagana V R
Designation:Project Associate I
Qualification: Bachelor in urban and regional planning
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved: City-Scale Travel Demand Model Development.
Research Interest: GIS, transportation planning, Network Augmentation, urban planning.
Mr. K C Vishal
Designation:Project Associate I
Qualification:M.Tech CSE, REVA University
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved: Public Transportation Network.
Research Interest: AI/ML, Cloud Computing.
Mr. Arindam Chakraborty
Designation:Project Associate I
Qualification::B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved: API for Crowd Sensing Data Collection for Road Infrastructure Assessment in India.
Research Interest: Software Development and Scalable System Design, Computer Vision and Edge AI for real-time perception, Distributed and Cloud-native Architectures.
Ms.Preethama R
Designation:Program Assistant
Qualification: MA Psychology (Integrated MBA), Dayalbagh Educational Institute
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved: Evaluation of Road Rules and Best Road Practices.
Research Interest: Behavioural psychology, Decision science, Socio-Cognitive Psychology.
Ms. Hadiya Showkat
Designation:Project Associate I
Qualification::B.E in Civil Engineering,Ramaiah Institute of Technology
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved:Road Safety Audit in Bengaluru City, Blackspot Audit, Crash Data Analysis.
Research Interest: Traffic Safety & AI, Traffic Simulation, Transportation Planning.
Ms. Amrutha P
Designation:Project Associate I
Qualification::Masters in computational biology with machine learning specialization, University of Kerala
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved:Detection and classification of traffic signs for automating road safety audits, developing MOSTT Lab website, analysis of inferencing concerns in object detection system for congestion mitigation, development of vision based framework for compute in intersection safety enhancement for 5G collision warning system.
Research Interest: Data science, Graph optimization, Computer vision applications on road safety, spacetime and neuroscience.
Ms. Anby Susan Abraham
Designation:Project Associate I
Qualification:: M. Tech in Transportation Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology - Kerala
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved:Geospatial and temporal analysis of crash data in Bengaluru using ArcGIS, Research on various GIS based tools for crash hotspot identification, Intersection safety enhancement by developing a 5G based collision warning system, Traffic impact assessment for the IISc Medical School and Hospital using PTV Vissim, Road safety audits on NH 44 in Bengaluru city.
Research Interest: Transportation Planning, Traffic Flow Modelling and Simulation, ITS, GIS based Traffic Safety Analysis.
Mr. Mohith Kumar
Designation:Project Associate
Qualification::B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering
Ongoing Research/ Project Involved:Development and Maintenance of the VISTA Lab website and research on computer vision applications.
Research Interest: Computer vision, web technologies, and their interdisciplinary applications.